Exodus 25:23–39

The Table for the Bread of the Presence

²³“You shall make a table of acacia wood, two cubits long, one cubit wide, and a cubit and a half high.^{* 24}You shall overlay it with pure gold and make a molding of gold around it. ²⁵You shall make around it a rim a handbreadth wide and a molding of gold around the rim. ²⁶You shall make for it four rings of gold and fasten the rings to the four corners at its four legs. ²⁷The rings that hold the poles used for carrying the table shall be close to the rim. ²⁸You shall make the poles of acacia wood and overlay them with gold, and the table shall be carried with these. ²⁹You shall make its plates and dishes and its flagons and bowls with which to pour drink offerings; you shall make them of pure gold.^{* 30}And you shall set the bread of the Presence on the table before me continually.^*

The Lampstand

³¹“You shall make a lampstand of pure gold. The base and the shaft of the lampstand shall be made of hammered work; its cups, its calyxes, and its petals shall be of one piece with it;^{* 32}and there shall be six branches going out of its sides: three branches of the lampstand out of one side of it and three branches of the lampstand out of the other side of it;^{* 33}three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on one branch, and three cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with calyx and petals, on the other branch—so for the six branches going out of the lampstand. ³⁴On the lampstand itself there shall be four cups shaped like almond blossoms, each with its calyxes and petals.^{* 35}There shall be a calyx of one piece with it under the first pair of branches, a calyx of one piece with it under the next pair of branches, and a calyx of one piece with it under the last pair of branches—so for the six branches that go out of the lampstand. ³⁶Their calyxes and their branches shall be of one piece with it, the whole of it one hammered piece of pure gold. ³⁷You shall make seven lamps for it, and the lamps shall be set up so as to give light on the space in front of it.^{* 38}Its snuffers and trays shall be of pure gold. ³⁹It and all these utensils shall be made from a talent of pure gold.